Rhetoric Program Colloquia
Department of Communication Arts
University of Wisconsin — Madison
Spring 2008

17 January (Thursday), 4 PM
Lecture: "From Miracle Cures to Communist Zombies: Epideictic Arguments about Lobotomy in the Popular Press"

Jenell Johnson
English Department
Pennsylvania State University
Ewbank Room

24 January -- No Colloquium, First Week of Classes

31 January
Public Talk: "The Human Geography of Slave Rebellion: Nat Turner's Revolt"

Anthony Kaye
Pennsylvania State University
7191 Helen C. White

7 February
Public Talk: "Forgotten Warriors: U.S.-Mexico War Veterans and the Amnesia of Empire"

Amy Greenberg
Pennsylvania State University
7191 Helen C. White

14 February (Thursday), 4 PM
Joint Panel: "Deliberation and Representation: Faculty Research Updates"

The Faculty of the University of Wisconsin Department of Communication Arts
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
4070 Vilas

21 February (Thursday), 4 PM
Lecture: "The 'Good Mother' and the Family At War: Discourses of Health, Democracy, and Family Planning"

Sarah (Meinen) Jedd
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
Ewbank Room

28 February (Thursday), 4 PM
Lecture: "Making Good: Testimony and Reparation in South Africa and Australia"

Mark Sanders
New York University
Department of Comparative Literature
7191 Helen C. White Hall

6 March -- No Colloquium, Faculty Meeting

13 March (Thursday), 4 PM
Lecture: "'If I forget thee, O Jerusalem': Palestine and the Language of Memory"

Michael Bernard-Donals
Chair and Nancy Hoefs Professor of English
English Department
University of Wisconsin — Madison
Ewbank Room

20 March -- No Colloquium, Spring Break

27 March (Thursday), 4 PM
Cancelled for Party!

 
3 April -- No Colloquium, Faculty Meeting

10 April (Thursday), 4 PM
Joint Lecture: "Manifest Myth-Making: Texas History in the Movies"

Charles Ramírez Berg
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Department of Radio-Television-Film
The University of Texas, Austin
4070 Vilas

17 April (Thursday), 4 PM
Lecture: "Not Another 9/11 Movie: Representing and Interpreting the September 11 Terrorist Attacks in Film"

Kathryn Palmer
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
Ewbank Room

24 April (Thursday), 4 PM
Lecture: "Bridging the Rhetorical Divide Between East and West: Richard Nixon's Speeches and His Journey to China, February 21-February 28, 1972"
Michelle Murray
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
Ewbank Room

1 May -- No Colloquium, Faculty Meeting

8 May -- No Colloquium, Last Week of Classes